International Association for Travel Behaviour Research

(IATBR)

 

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

 

Background:  Travel Behaviour Research is a cross-disciplinary field that draws concepts, methods and people from many disciplines, including economics, psychology, engineering, statistics, geography, sociology, mathematics and physics.  Over the past few decades, the field has reached a certain degree of pre-eminence and recognition, as evidenced by a successful and influential series of international conferences and associated books, substantial impact on travel demand forecasting and transportation planning practice, and distinguished members who receive recognition in their home disciplines.   At the Austin 1997 Meeting, a proposal for an annual doctoral dissertation competition prize was approved, and the new award has already become a coveted honor among new entrants to the field and their supervising professors.  However, there are no avenues to recognize senior contributors in this field to which a growing number of researchers and practitioners are devoting the majority of their professional career.  The objective of the IATBR Lifetime Achievement Award is to partially address this gap. 

 

The Lifetime Achievement Award was unanimously approved by the IATBR Board on May 21, 2003.

 

Guidelines:  The individual selected to receive this award should:

 

1. have made fundamental and sustained contributions to travel behaviour research for a substantial period (typically at least 25 years) up to the present time

2.       be widely known, at the very least among the IATBR community, and

3.    have influenced the field through her/his writings, teaching, service, and nurturing of younger professionals.

 

Individuals known to be at or near retirement from full-time professional service will generally be given priority in consideration for the award.

 

Award Frequency:  The award will be made every three years, to be presented at the International Triennial Meeting. The Award Selection Committee may decide to recommend to the IATBR board consideration of more than one person during each triennial cycle.

 

Award Recognition:  The winner(s) will receive a plaque appropriate to the occasion, a symbolic monetary award of $1000, and complimentary registration at the IATBR International Meeting at which the award is to be presented (the latter item will be the responsibility of the Meeting organizers).

 

Procedure:  Selection of the award recipient(s) is the responsibility of a Committee with revolving overlapping membership, patterned along the same process as the Dissertation Award Committee.  The Committee will have a three-person Core Group, appointed by the IATBR President, ordered in three positions, where position 1 is the current chair; upon completion of the selection process for a given cycle, the chair is rotated out of the committee, position 2 member becomes the chair, and position 3 moves up to 2.  A new Core Group member is then appointed by the IATBR President for position 3, and so on. In addition to the three Core Group members, the incoming Chair of the Committee shall appoint two additional judges for the particular judging cycle.  The Committee shall make its selection at least one month prior to the upcoming IATBR International Meeting; the Chair shall notify the winner confidentially to make sure that he/she will attend the meeting. 

 

Nominations will be solicited from the membership of IATBR about one year before the award is to be made.  Self-nominations are not accepted.  The nominator must provide a nomination letter explaining why the nominee is worthy of this particular award, and include a current resume.  Nominations should be made confidentially to the Chair of the Selection Committee; the nominee must not be made aware of his/her nomination.  All nominations and deliberations of the Committee shall be privileged information, and the list of nominees must not be made public. 

 

 

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

AWARD COMMITTEES

 

2012: Kay Axhausen (Chair)...

 

2009: Tony Richardson (Chair), Kay Axhausen...

 

2006: John Polak (Chair), Tony Richardson, Kay Axhausen, Kara Kockelman, Akimasa Fujiwara

 

2003: Hani Mahmassani (Chair), Tony Richardson, John Polak, Sergio Jara-Diaz, Eric Miller